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(11) Butterfly donations

August 1, 2011

I spent a good portion of the afternoon trimming butterflies away from the mesh backing. This is definitely my least favorite aspect of the project, but a necessary one. I used latex gloves in the beginning of the process and then ditched them to do other things and never bothered to put them back on again. Big mistake! The insides of my fingers are feeling raw & prickly now.

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Four packages stuffed full of winged creatures arrived late in the afternoon. Here's what tumbled out of the boxes...

Artist Cindy White donated this butterfly made with stained glass and mirror. From the thumbnail it looks like a real butterfly!

Artist Debs McLaughlin, who participated in my last collaborative mosaic project at the J.H. Messina Children's Center, donated two more stained glass & mirror butterflies titled "Hot Tamale" and "Lagoon Blue". They flew in all the way from beautiful St. Lucia!

(The package had some lovely stamps attached that I will use for one of my paper collages some time in the future.)